German Arbitration Institute (DIS): Member directory

Current activity

Professor of private law, independent arbitrator

Professional focus

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Law of obligations (contracts
torts
restitution)
sales law
international commercial law
CISG

Areas of law

My career

1970-1975: studies at Universities of Tübingen (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Freiburg i.Br. (Germany).
1975: First State examination (Freiburg i.Br., 3/209).
1976: LL.M. (University of California, Berkeley, High honors).
1978: Dr. iur. utr. (Freiburg i.Br., summa cum laude).
1980: Second State examination (Stuttgart, 1/334).
1987: Habilitation (Freiburg i.Br.).

Arbitration experience

Repeated appointments as chair, co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator, Swiss co-counsel (Swiss Rules, ICC, DIS, LCIA, ad hoc). Regularly acting as expert on Swiss and German law. Subject matter of proceedings: sales and supply contracts, construction, plant and equipment, distribution, joint ventures, commercial contracts.

Publications

Global Sales and Contract Law, Oxford 2012, cxciii and 873 p. (jointly with Pascal Hachem and Christopher Kee)
International Sales Law, Oxford 2012 (jointly with Christiana Fountoulakis and Mariel Dimsey)
Schlechtriem/Schwenzer, Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG), 3rd edition, Oxford 2010, xcvi and 1480 p.
Schweizerisches Obligationenrecht, Allgemeiner Teil, 5. Aufl., Bern 2009, XLV und 657 S.
Moral Damages in International Investment Arbitration, in: Kröll/Mistelis/Perales Viscasillas/Rogers (ed.), International Arbitration and International Commercial Law: Synergy, Convergence and Evolution, Liber Amicorum Eric Bergsten, Alphen aan den Rijn 2011, pp. 411-430 (jointly with Pascal Hachem).

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